Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 9, 1915, Page 3

— e _} 1 @i | ash Groceries § Clean Store Right Price ‘Good Service Large Stock Yours to Please , B. Dickson “Postponement!” shrilled the wom- an, coarsely. “Do you suppose Aggie is going to marry you now?” “Why, of course, I do,” answered Jim, looking at the woman in bewil- derment. “A penniless pauper!” she sneered. “Of course it is hard on her,” ad- mitted Jim. “But surely, Mrs. Mc- Laughlin, there were no monetary con- siderations involved in our engage- ment.” Mrs. McLaughlin actually snapped her fingers under Jim’s nose. “See here, young man, I'm going to talk straight to you,” she said. “I don’t know whether you're bluffing or Just a fool, but I mean Aggle to marry a man with a wad of money. What do you think she took you for? For T sey, six feet two, broad, as the most picturesque ever went into Wall street. B of thirty-two he had come pska with a cool fifteen mil- d during a period of seven had elapsed since he went n Illinois, a country store- istant with 'a longing for qualities of nerve which him in such good stead miners continued to accom- h for him in New York. owever, a combination was against him. And, after a battle of seven days, in ks were slaughtered at a own before, Jim found him- your good looks? Are you a fool, or what's the matter with you?” Jim felt as helpless before this out- burst of rage as a wild beast in a trap “If your daughter releases me, of course I shall accept the decision,” he answered quietly, “Well, we'll soon see about that!” [the price of his hotel bill, a | k to Nome and $700 in bills. Halsey was wiped out. The! lewspapers announced it in And Jim was pondering situation. { elf he cared nothing at all. jnes McLaughlin he cared | And he had to tell her. | lin had been a picturesque ; gesture. '::,'“':l'"‘f'b‘: :’: ":m':l:d i “This man is a pauper, Aggle,” she a :' :‘: fl"b “. m:lllo:. “ly. i sald. “And he thinks he is going to wou & way for herseit aud MArTY you. He won't take the truth & vy ;rom me. Tell him what you have * just told me, Aggle.” m‘:‘h":h"‘l"u”“ }‘“" C4D | " e girl turned to Halsey. “I can- e mevon Will €9 8 ' not marry you,” she said. “Please un- in a three-years' campaign, pposed to be supported by . ::;l:lllfl that finally. I never loved llions behind it. Nobody | ““py you—you only wanted my it the McLaughlin !ortur:le money?” demanded Jim b::y“l:n::"t:::' A"“,:’;'fl';c; “Nat for mssell” erled_the girl with had been hawked round the of Europe and America dur- last three years. Everybody, ut Jim. : admitted to the rented . Fifth avenue. He thought | looked a little coldly at him. | ial, in fact, reflected the feel- | household. Mrs. McLaugh- I had considered Jim an excel- | jpromise in the light of previ- l screamed the woman. She touched the bell and the butler appeared. Upon his face was a sneer hardly dis- guised. It was evident that he had been listening to the conversation at the door. “Tell Miss Agnes to come here at once,” she said. . Agnes McLaughlin came in and her mother turned. to her with a furious and her dwindling capital, | sense of a woman betrayed, DT DT ST < < o< I< = = Drc. ST < a Fool, or What's the Matter | With Your” man who has staked his last n the favorite at the races, and mother salled into the room. d still, looking at Jim, and resentment flashed out in her ords. true, what the papers say, are a pauper?” she demanded nts of indescribable vulgarity. veneer of 20 years had van- and she was again—well, the woman that she had been [cLaughlin, fascinated with her uty, had married her. it's true,” admitted Jim, with “But don't take it to heart, Of course, this will ' the postponement of our mar- ind I shall have to scrape to- another fortune in Alaska. e ughlin RPN (- a didded véliement outbirst. ity my mother. I have been on sale three years. Everybody has known it but “Aggie! What are you talking about? cried her mother in amase- “I will speak now,” answered the ! girl. “I have beer taken round the matrimonial showrooms of Europe and America for three years. My mother has spent nearly a million dol- lars on me, in the expectation of get- ting it back, and more. You were the last chance, for our money is nearly gone—" “How dare you speak like that!” cried Mrs. McLaughlin furiously. “Because it is the truth,” replied the daughter. “Did I love you, Jim? I never thought of love. I only thought of doing my duty and repaying the money that had been advanced on me. ‘We don't love, we of the fashionably rich class. We marry to sell our selves to the men we can infatuate. ‘That was why I accepted you.” “The girl has gone mad!” exclaimed Mrs. McLaughlin, with upraised hands. “Timmons!" But if Timmons was listening dis- creetly at the door, he evidently Judged this an unpropitious moment to enter in answer to the call. “That was why I became engaged to you, Jim,” continued Agnes Mec- Laughlin. “And I thought I was doing my duty. Ah, but—" her voice softened involuntarily—"“it was only | when I found that you were different, Jim, that I realized, that I began to realize my wrong. 1 was ready to break the heart of an honest man— for you would have found me out after marriage, Jim. I was ready to do you | the greatest wrong a woman can do & ! man. T realized that when I saw that yours was not the veneer of courtesy, to which I have grown accustomed, but the love of a good man. And many and many a time I was half- | tempted to confess to you, and re- ! frained. Now you know all, and there is no more to say.” She turned toward the door, and Jim, ignoring the mother, who s ' apparently paralyzed, beside the t X followed her and caught her by the wrists. “And now—you will sell yourself to some other man?” he demanded flercely. “Oh, 1 suppose s0,” she answered, wearily. “That s, if the money"— she gave a hysterical little laugh—"it the money does not give out before mother can find one.” Jim Halsey suddenly laughed, and it was at that moment that he showed best the qualities which had given i him success. For in his laughter there | was the challenge of a strong man |who refuses to accept the buffet of | fate, and rises supreme, to dominate | | “You poor child!” he said tenderly. “Do you suppose that I am going to let this happen to you? I am going to marry you—do you understand that, | Agnes? I am going to marry vou, and I am going to save you from | yourself. | “I came here tonight with the in- tention of offering to release you. And, | not believing that your love, in which '1 belleved, was fair-weather love, I planned to tell you that in two or three years I could come back to New York with another fortune. I was go- ing to ask you to wait two years. Now 1 am going to take you away with me, it oy (DAl D= “Timmons! Timmons!” exclaimeu the mother feebly, as she clung to the table. But Timmons did not come; in fact, he was not even at the door. The discreet butler was, instead, re- counting the incident in the servants’ apartments. “If what?” whispered the girl, rals- ing her eyes to his with an expression that Jim had never seen in them know what love was until—you taught me, Jim.” And that was Jim Halsey's greatest of all trilumphs, which he remem- bered afterward, when his name was upon all lips as that of the man who had “come back.” (Copyright, 914, by W. G. Chapman.) Difference In Wild Horses. ‘Wild horses in Arabia will not admit a tame horse among them; but the wild horses of South America endeav- or to decoy domesticated horses from their masters, and seem eager to wel- § come them. “Beautiful.” “How glad I am,” purred the visi- tor, “that your daughter has made such an excellent match.” Mrs, Strug sm'led, in the gratified manner of a successful campaigner. “Yes, Madge has married well— very well,” she answered, compla- cently. “But what a pity,” pursued she of the catty instinct, “that he has such a peculiar name—Fussenmuck, isn’t 1t?" she queried innocently. “Yes,” agreed the other indiffer ently. “Hateful don’t you think so?” “I haven't thought about the sound of it,” declared Mrs. S—, whose feelings had been eradicated in the struggle for existence, “but I know that it's got a perfectly beautiful ap- Pearance on a check'” Don’t let that cough hang on. 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